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...in isolation, human minds tend to get strange, like a self-portrait painted from memory, in the dark, using a live snake as a brush.

— Jason Pargin I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom (2024)

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Your heroes aren't gods, they're just regular people who probably got good at one thing by neglecting literally everything else.

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